It’s hard for a West Virginia Mountaineer to get much love in Pitt territory even, if that player is Allegheny county native Pat McAfee. Still, the former NFL punter and current ESPN commentator generated a ton of buzz and energy with his brash speech about the Pirates ahead of Pitt’s game against Notre Dame on Saturday. While Pitt rolled over on the gridiron, McAfee’s dynamic call to action and Kirk Herbstreit’s nostalgia for the “We Are Family” Pirates of the late 1970s may be the exact thing this city needs.
It seems like the best of times and the worst of times in Pittsburgh sports.